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Dozens of University of Cincinnati students gathered on campus Monday night to express their concerns with the university's response to the criminal trial of former UC police officer Ray Tensing, which ended in a mistrial Saturday.

"Demand a retrial. Demand a retrial," students and community members shouted in unison, interrupting interim president Beverly Davenport's opening remarks at the event.

"At the end of the day, we do want justice for Sam," said Mitchell Phelps, undergraduate student body president. "And we do demand a retrial."

Phelps asked students to not lose faith in the university because "together we've peacefully overcome many challenges and we will not stop now."

Multiple students and community members repeatedly asked the university to take a stance and demand a retrial of Ray Tensing, who was charged with murder and voluntary manslaughter.

"We don't control who does the retrial," Rob Richardson Jr. said over shouting audience members. "Today is for student activists and others to figure out how we can improve our institution."

It's up to Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters to decide whether there will be another trial and what charges will be brought against the 26-year-old former officer.

Richardson, chairman of the UC board of trustees said they don't control the city, but they do control changes at the University of Cincinnati.

"Why don't we fire those lying cops?" a student yelled out, referencing UCPD officers Philip Kidd and David Lindenschmidt. The two officers arrived at the scene as their colleague Ray Tensing pulled the trigger on July 19, 2015 and testified at the trial about what they saw and heard that day.

"One year, lying cops are still on the payroll," someone shouted.

Mona Jenkins, a graduate student at UC asked the administration: "Why are these officers still on campus? Why have they not been fired?"

UC Police Chief Anthony Carter responded by explaining that the officers' statements were reviewed by outside investigators including Cincinnati Police Department, Kroll and the Hamilton County Prosecutor's Office. Carter said he reviewed the statements himself as well. Those investigations came to the conclusion that officers Lindenschmidt and Kidd were not guilty of violating any the law or department policies.

The questions stem from officer Kidd's contradicting statements. The audio on his body camera shows he initially confirmed Tensing's account of what happened at the scene, but his statements to police he says he didn't witness the shot or Tensing being dragged by the car carrying DuBose. UCPD officials have said Kidd was only repeating what Tensing had told him at the scene.

Kidd testified in court that he did not see Tensing being dragged by the car.

Lindenschmidt testified that he didn't see the fatal encounter, saying he only heard the sound of squealing tires and a gunshot.

The two officers remain in UCPD and Carter stood by the university's decision to keep the officers on the force.

"It's easy to say condemn, condemn, condemn and not look at a fair process," Carter said. "If you have something that differs from what I have from those three entities... let's sit down and talk about it."

Jenkins said when she calls UCPD for a flat tire in a campus garage she fears "who may be showing up" and she doesn't want it to be Lindenschmidt or Kidd.

"I live in fear every day, I live in fear on this campus," Jenkins said.

"I don't want these 'let's talk about our feelings' things anymore. Either you answer these questions or you prepare for these students to take action."

Richardson also provided a direct response to students asking the university to fire officers Lindenschidt and Kidd.

"If we fire all the cops tomorrow, we still have institutional racism that exists in this country," Richardson said. "I love the passion, but if we're trying to have constructive action and policy about moving forward it's going to take more than yelling."

"It's going to take us coming together to fight for it," Richardson said. "I hope you will continue to hold us accountable to do that."

He said the university made system errors and now they are correcting those errors.

"I understand the anger because you have a lot of right to be angry, and don't think I'm not either," Richardson said. "But I want to figure out what we can do with that in order to make substantive change."